wallet-core/src/http.ts

/*
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 TALER is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
 terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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 */

/**
 * Helpers for doing XMLHttpRequest-s that are based on ES6 promises.
 * Allows for easy mocking for test cases.
 */

/**
 * An HTTP response that is returned by all request methods of this library.
 */
export interface HttpResponse {
  status: number;
  responseText: string;
}


/**
 * The request library is bundled into an interface to make mocking easy.
 */
export interface HttpRequestLibrary {
  get(url: string): Promise<HttpResponse>;

  postJson(url: string, body: any): Promise<HttpResponse>;

  postForm(url: string, form: any): Promise<HttpResponse>;
}


/**
 * An implementation of the [[HttpRequestLibrary]] using the
 * browser's XMLHttpRequest.
 */
export class BrowserHttpLib {
  private req(method: string,
              url: string,
              options?: any): Promise<HttpResponse> {
    return new Promise<HttpResponse>((resolve, reject) => {
      const myRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
      myRequest.open(method, url);
      if (options && options.req) {
        myRequest.send(options.req);
      } else {
        myRequest.send();
      }
      myRequest.addEventListener("readystatechange", (e) => {
        if (myRequest.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
          const resp = {
            responseText: myRequest.responseText,
            status: myRequest.status,
          };
          resolve(resp);
        }
      });
    });
  }


  get(url: string) {
    return this.req("get", url);
  }


  postJson(url: string, body: any) {
    return this.req("post", url, {req: JSON.stringify(body)});
  }


  postForm(url: string, form: any) {
    return this.req("post", url, {req: form});
  }
}


/**
 * Exception thrown on request errors.
 */
export class RequestException {
  constructor(public detail: any) {
  }
}